CLASSICAL CHICAGO STRING QUARTET

Pianist Gary...

Pianist Gary Graffman will join the foursome for a performance of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's rarely heard Suite for Two Violins, Cello and Piano Left Hand. The program also holds quartets by Haydn and Dvorak; 3 p.m. Sunday at the DePaul University Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave.; $8-$30; 312-692-9000.

Music director Lawrence Rapchak leads the orchestra in unusual and wide-ranging fare celebrating "Spirituality in Music." Soprano Sharon Quattrin, violinist and violist Charles Pikler and the Roosevelt University Women's Ensemble will join in works by Debussy, Bruch, Albeniz, Mozart, Duparc and Holst. The concert is at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Sheely Center for the Performing Arts, Glenbrook North High School, 2300 Shermer Rd., Northbrook. $5-$35; 847-272-0755.

Nir Bergman's film focuses on the problems of a fatherless family -- especially the mother (Orli Zilbershatz-Banai) and daughter (Maya Maron) -- and how they cope with their own crises. MPAA rating: R; Sunday at the Wilmette theater, 2511 Central Ave., Wilmette; 847-251-7411.

The writer-director's masterpieces will be reprised this month in the series that this week includes Sturges' directorial debut, the scathing political yarn "The Great McGinty," with Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff; Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.; 312-846-2600 or www.siskelfilmcenter.org.

-- Michael Wilmington

THEATER

`COLLABORACTION: SKETCHBOOK'

A lotta little plays in an atmospherically exhilarating package. With a live deejay and a big mixed-media art component, unfolding inside one of the more innately groovy theatrical spaces in town, the fourth annual Collaboraction "Sketchbook" showcase presents eight plays per night, each sketch running seven minutes (or less). The bill I caught contained several small gems covering a variety of styles. Among them: The Punch-and-Judy saga "Potatoes" by Laurel Haines; "On Sunday Morning," an old-age reverie by Larry Pontius, directed in moving-sculpture fashion by Jimmy McDermott; and Sean Graney's raucous, blackly comic "Family Swim," highlighted by a cacklingly upbeat urn from Mechelle Moe, my vote for mother of the year; ends Sunday at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division St.; $20; 312-226-9633 or collaboraction.org.